Louisville's Kyle Funkhouser (Louisville)

Louisville Brings Back The Funk

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It feels like Kyle Funkhouser’s been around forever already, but he’s back for another year. Not that there was really anything left to prove after 287 1/3 collegiate innings, in which he’d struck out 281 batters, most of them as the Friday starter for one of the premier programs in the country. Funkhouser had ticked almost all of the career achievement boxes: a spot on the collegiate national team, two trips to Omaha (and one pole-scraping David Olmedo-Barrera home run away from a third), and an offer to play pro ball[…]